Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:41:36 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Robert P. J. Day" <> | Subject | Re: what's with the "pre-releases" directory? |
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On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 01:13:45PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > just curious about this: > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/pre-releases > > These were the -test kernels that preceeded 2.6.0. > > > given that it seems filled with really old 2.6.0 content, what's the > > value in it? just curious. > > just curious about this: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic > > given that it seems filled with really old content, what's the > value in it? just curious. > > ;-)
um ... i'm going to assume you were being facetious since i can certainly see the value in the very, very first "official" release of linux, while still not seeing the point in a directory labelled "pre-releases" which contains nothing but pre-2.6.0 patches that go back to 2003. on the other hand, that *would* make sense under the Historic directory.
rday
p.s. and while i'm whining, would it be possible to clear the obsolete "LATEST-IS" files out of:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing
i have a script that grabs the latest rc tarball out of that directory, and it got confused by seeing more than one LATEST-IS file. not hard to work around but, still ...
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